Birds, Bees & Birthdays

 Wednesday Greetings, everyone. Hope you have good weather wherever you are. Ours was sunny last week, but now we are in a pattern of one day sunny, one cloudy, one rainy, one cloudy, and repeat. I guess it's April showers bringing May flowers, but I would love more sunshine.

So, I did the next best thing and made a birthday card using lots of sunny yellow (with green and dark berry pink) from Basic Grey Hello Luscious designer papers. I also used precolored digis from Beccy's Place: Arthur (one of the birds from Wilson-Birds set), and Birdhouse with Vines (March's freebie image). I was a bit afraid the red berries would clash against the dark berry pink, but if it does I like it, lol. The sentiments were stamped using Sweet Stamp Shop's Alpha Tabs on the yellow card cut with the smallest MFT Fishtail Banner Stax die of that set. Arthur was fussy cut and joined the Lawn Fawn and Third Coast bee stamps in punched circles. The card base was cut from 12x12 KI Memories card stock.

I used Outlawz' current Wednesday sketch, but after resizing to 5.75"-square, I then rotated it 180 degrees. I wanted to use bees instead of buttons and they usually are buzzing in the air. I also added Arthur so it's an extra element, but I don't think it throws the movement in the sketch off at all. 

  

The Sweet Stamp Shop alpha set came with a few words and included the sentiment I've stamped on the inside, stamping the Happy 3 times. For the back of the card, I used another sheet of the BG and some BG scraps leftover from the front with an EKSuccess siggie stamped and circle punched.

A close-up of the bees to capture the Sakura Clear Star metallic gel penning on the wings. 

And some clear Wink of Stella carefully brushed on Arthur's irises. Since he has green eyes, I wanted to highlight them.

And a final view. I always enjoy using Beccy's Place digis, and it's a breeze to print now with my new printer -- worry-free! (So far so good, anyway, got my fingers crossed and prayers recited!) 

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you are having a crafty week! XOX

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:

1.   Outlawz Wednesday Sketch 3/31-4/13

2.   Outlawz Color Tuesdays 4/6-4/19: Tic Tac Toe -- The top row inspired me with the colors of pink, green and yellow, also blue shading on the birdhouse  

3.   Country View April Challenge: The Birds and the Bees

4.   Beccy's Place April Challenge: AG + Opt. Flowers/Plants/Foliage -- Option played and used her digis.

5.   Try it on Tuesday: Hello Spring!

6.   Scrapping4Fun #189: AG -- #1/3

7.   CD Sunday Plus #57: AG -- #1/3 Used Beccy's Place pre-colored digis

8.   2 Crafty Critter Crazies April: AG with a Critter -- #2/5 I have bees and a bird

9.   Crafty Animals #49: AG with an Animal -- I have bees and a bird

10. Pearly Sparkles #61: Animals-Birds-Insects -- I've used a bird and bees.